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2.Four Skills

Skill Number 1: Language Fluency

Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate.

We have three stages of exam and all of them have one common core material .That is language of choice .You should be able to fluently use and comprehend language .Your language processing speed dependents lot on your declarative knowledge which you accumulated all through your life.The more you expose and interact with a language the better you will become at language processing .

In Prelims exam the faster you are able to comprehend the question, the better you will be able to save time and answer correctly .In the case of Mains you should be able to comprehend the question faster and deliver the best writing piece with in the word limit as fast as possible.In the interview also you need the same skill set.

Reading

Aspirants should focus on two kinds of reading:

Meaning focused: This is Normal reading all human beings do to get the meaning by decoding the abstraction of the vocabulary and sentences.

Structure focused : Spend at-least 10% of your reading time focusing on structure and grammar of the text.Try to focus on the organization of paragraphs and the important vocabulary.Focus also on punctuation.